Neap is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 32 anagrams from letters in neap (aenp).
before 900; Middle English neep, Old English nēp-, in nēpflōd neap tide
At neap tides the rock shows only a few black teeth with sea-weed gums above the surface.
It was a time of neap or spring tide, besides which the wind was in the right direction to make the water rise very high.
From this it will be seen that there are two spring tides and two neap tides in each twenty-eight days.
When the two agree, we get a spring tide of four feet; when they oppose each other, we get a neap tide of only two feet.
Height of neap and spring tides, at full and change of the moon.
The spring tides occur at the syzygies: the neap tides at the quadratures.
The spring tide is lunar plus solar; the neap tide is lunar minus solar.
During the neap tides, the ship lay wholly aground, the sea not approaching nearer than within a hundred yards of her.
A ship grounding in a very low tide (neap) is still said to be neaped.
So we have spring tides regularly once a fortnight, with neap tides in between.
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